Faculty Affiliated with the International Affairs
Council Research and Teaching Interests

Julia P. Adams - Chair, International Affairs Council; Professor of Sociology
Julia Adams teaches and conducts research in the areas of state formation, gender and family, and social theory. She is currently studying contemporary forms of patriarchal politics, and the historical sociology of principal-agent relations.

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Cheryl Doss - Associate Chair, International Affairs Council; Director of Graduate Studies, International Relations; Lecturer, Economics; Faculty Advisor, Graduate Certificate in Development Studies
Cheryl Doss's research focuses on the economics of rural household decision-making in Africa. As the director of the M.A. program in International Relations, she teaches economics courses for graduate students in that program.

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Pierre-François Landry -International Studies DUS for 2008-2009; Associate Professor, Political Science
Pierre-François Landry's research interests focus on Chinese politics, comparative local government, and quantitative comparative political analysis. His teaching includes courses on Chinese politics and decentralization in developing countries.

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Jasmina Besirevic - Dean, Trumbull College; Lecturer, Sociology; Lecturer, Ethnicity, Race and Migration
Jasmina Resirevic's research is focused on the sociology of genocide in Bosonia and Croatia. She is the Dean of Trumbull College and teaches courses in sociology and ethnicity, race and migration.

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Shameem Black - Assistant Professor, English
Shameem Black specializes in twentieth-century literatures in English. Her research focuses on literature and globalization, contemporary fiction, postcolonial literature, and South Asian studies. She is currently working on a book about cosmopolitanism and transcultural imagination in contemporary postcolonial and American fiction.

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Christopher Blattman - Assistant Professor, Political Science
Chris studies poverty alleviation, political participation, the causes and consequences of violence, and public policy in developing countries. Teaching: Political Economy of Civil War and Terror.

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Michael Boozer - Director of Graduate Studies, International Development Economics Program; Lecturer, Economics
Michael Boozer's research is focused on labor economics, econometrics, and the economics of schooling. He teaches courses in microeconomics theory, economics, and labor economy.

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Paul Bracken - Professor, Political Science; Professor, Yale School of Management
Paul Bracken's research concerns international relations, national security, and the multinational corporation. He teaches classes in business, government, and globalization, and strategy, technology, and war.

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Elizabeth Bradley - Professor, School of Public Health
Her research focuses on health services, with an emphasis on management and quality improvement. Her work in the U.S. focuses on the quality of hospital care for heart attack patients, as well as the use and quality of hospice services. Bradley also is involved in several projects in international settings, including ones in Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, which focus on strengthening health systems. Co-teaching: Strategic Topics in Global Health.

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Garry Brewer - Director, The Environment Management Center; Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor of Resource Policy and Management, Yale School of Management
Garry Brewer specializes in policy science and natural resources and environmental management. He teaches courses in environmental problem solving offered at the School of Management and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

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Lea Brilmayer - Howard M. Holtzmann Professor, International Law
Lea Brilmayer's research interests include international law and conflicts of laws.   She teaches courses on legal issues in Africa and international tribunals.

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Pia Rebello Britto - Associate Research Scientist, Child Study Center
Pia Britto's research centers around child development. She will teach a course for the International Relations Program focusing on the changing international policy framework related to children, families and ecomonic development.  

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Hannah Brueckner - Professor,  Sociology
Her work is on a wide range of topics related to the life course, inequality, health, gender and sexuality.

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Paul A. Bushkovitch - Professor, History
Paul Bushkovitch specializes in the history of Russia before the eighteenth century. His graduate courses include an introduction to early Russian history and research seminars on topics in sixteenth and seventeenth century Russian history.

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David Cameron - Professor, Political Science
David has written extensively about the impact of trade openness on government and, with respect to the EU, about the initiative to complete the internal market, the operation of the European Monetary System, the negotiation and implementation of Economic and Monetary Union, the enlargement of the EU, and the negotiation of the failed constitutional treaty and its successor, the Treaty of Lisbon. Teaching: The European Union.

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Marian R. Chertow - Director, Program on Solid Waste Policy; Director, Industrial Environmental Management Program; Assistant Professor, Industrial Environmental Management
Marian Chertow's research and teaching concern environmental management and policy as they relate to the private sector. Her primary research interests are the application of innovation theory to the development of environmental and energy technology and the study of industrial symbiosis. She teaches courses in industrial ecology.  

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Amy Chua - John M. Duff Jr. Professor, Law, Yale Law School
Amy Chua's research focuses on markets and democracy in developing countries. She teaches courses such as empire, tolerance, international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, globalization and the law.

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Kamari M. Clarke - Associate Professor, Anthropology; Research Associate, Yale Law School
Kamari Clarke's areas of research explore issues related to religious nationalism, legal institutions, international law, the interface between culture and power and its relationship to the modernity of race and late capitalist globalization. She has taught courses on globalization, transnationalism, human rights, and anthropology of religion.

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Patrick Cohrs – Assistant Professor, History
Patrick Cohrs is currently working on a history of the "Pax Americana," which re-appraises American pursuits of a "new world order" from their origins to the Cold War and explores how far they contributed to the emergence of a more legitimate international system.  He teaches courses in US international history and the history of European and international politics.

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Leslie Curry – Lecturer, Epidemiology & Public Health
Her research examines health services and health policy related to older adults, with a particular focus on the organization, financing and quality of innovative models of long term care.  Co-teaching:   Strategic Topics in Global Health.

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Keith Darden - Assistant Professor, Political Science
Keith Darden's research interests include the formation of international institutions, alliances, and trade blocs, the political economy of post-Communism, and the role of economic, religious and national ideas in shaping political order. He teaches courses in nationalism and identity, international politics, and international relations theory.  

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Deborah Davis - Professor, Sociology
Deborah Davis' research interests include exploring the social consequences of privatizing home ownership in Chinese cities and the study of educational reform in rural China. She teaches courses in comparative sociology, inequality, stratification, and contemporary Chinese society. 

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Michael Dove - Michael K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Professor, Anthropology
Michael Dove's research focuses on the links between the resource-use systems of local communities and wider societies, with a special focus on the environmental relations of local communities. He teaches courses in social theory and studies of agrarian societies.  

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Thad Dunning - Assistant Professor Political Science
Thad Dunning teaches an undergraduate lecture course and a seminar on ethnic politics in an international comparative perspective, as well as a graduate seminar on formal models of comparative politics.   He studies processes of political change, particularly in developing areas.   

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Keller Easterling – Associate Professor, Architecture, Visual Studies, Computing School of Architecture
Keller  Easterling is an architect, urbanist, and writer. She has recently completed two research installations on the Web: “Wildcards: A Game of Orgman” and “Highline: Plotting NYC.” She has lectured widely in the United States as well as internationally.

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Laura Engelstein - Henry S. McNeil Professor, History
Laura Engelstein is a historian of modern Russia. Her current research explores the relationship between sacred and secular values and forms of expression in modern Russian public culture. Her teaching includes courses in modern European and Russian history.

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Daniel Esty - Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy; Professor, Environmental Law and Policy
Daniel Esty's recent research focuses on new approaches to environmental regulation, environmental performance measurement and the benefit of data-driven environmental decision making, global environmental governance, and environment and security. His teaching is primarily focused on U.S. environmental law and policy.

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Seth Fein - Assistant Professor, History
Seth Fein's past research has focused on Mexican history and U.S.-Mexican relations during the twentieth century. His current research concerns the Alliance for Progress and Latin American television and a cultural history of the Pan American Highway. His teaching focuses on international and transnational histories of the United States international and transnational history, the Western Hemisphere, and film and history.

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William Foltz - H. J. Heinz Professor Emeritus African Studies and Political Science
William Foltz focuses his research in the politics and international relations of Africa, the political role of the military, and ethnic conflict.  He teaching focuses primarily on African politics.

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John Lewis Gaddis - Robert A. Lovett Professor of History
John Gaddis's research focuses on Cold War history and national security. He teaches courses in Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies, and biography.

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Beverly Gage - Assistant Professor, History
Beverly Gage is an assistant professor of 20th-century U.S. political history. Her teaching and research focus on the evolution of American political ideology and political institutions, including the history of terrorism and violent conflict within the U.S. She currently teaches courses on terrorism, communism and anticommunism, American conservatism, and the history of the "home front" in the 20th century.

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Bryan Garsten – Assistant Professor, Political Science
Bryan Garsten writes and teaches about the history of political thought and contemporary political theory, with a special interest in the themes of persuasion and rhetoric, political representation and judgment, and religion.

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William Goetzmann - Director, International Center for Finance; Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, Yale School of Management
William Goetzmann is an expert on a diverse range of investments, including stocks, mutual funds, real estate, and paintings. His research topics include forecasting stock markets, selecting mutual fund managers, housing as investment, and the risk and return of art.  

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Philip Gorski – Professor of Sociology; Co-Director, Center for Comparative Research
Philip Gorski is a comparative-historical sociologist with strong interests in theory and methods and in modern and early modern Europe.

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Stuart Gottlieb - Lecturer, International Affairs Council; Lecturer, Political Science; Director of Policy Studies; Faculty Advisor Graduate Certificate in International Security Studies
Stuart Gottlieb has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on U.S. foreign policy, counterterrorism, and weapons of mass destruction. He has also worked on several political campaigns, including New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's re-election campaign in 1997 and Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000.   

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Robert Harms - Professor, History
Robert Harms's research focuses on the environmental history of Africa. His graduate courses include seminars on African environmental history, African agrarian history.

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Charles Hill - Lecturer, International Affairs Council, MacMillan Center; Distinguished Fellow International International Security Studies and Special Programs in Humanities
Charles Hill interests center on international security and the United Nations. He teaches courses in international security, grand strategy and lectures on the great books of Western traditions.

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Frank Hole - C. J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology
Frank Hole's research includes archaeological, ethnographic and land use in the Near East, with a focus on the history and development of agriculture and animal husbandry. He teaches courses in archeology and ethnoarcheology.

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Michael Holquist – Professor of Comparative Literature; Co-Chair, Crossing Borders
Michael Holquist has taught courses on the modern European novel, literary theory, and is currently at work on a book devoted to modern German and Russian philology. He is also interested in fostering closer relations between Comparative Literature and International Studies.

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Susan Hyde - Assistant Professor Political Science
Susan Hyde teaches an undergraduate lecture course on international organization and two seminars in the MacMillan Center's International Relations master's program on democracy promotion and non-state actors in world politics.   She currently does work in democracy promotion and election monitoring in developing countries.    

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Gilbert M. Joseph - Farnam Professor of History
Gilbert Joseph's research focuses on resistance and revolution in Mexico and U.S.-Latin American relations. His graduate courses include readings and research seminars in agrarian history, Mexican history, and Latin American social and cultural history.

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Sigrun Kahl -  Postdoctoral Coordinator for the Project on Religion and Politics
Sigrun Kahl’s research interests: comparative welfare states; welfare-to-work policy; religion and politics; pre-modern social policy; historical and qualitative methods.  In 2007-08 she teaches courses on “Comparative Welfare States” and “Religion and Politics.” 

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Paul Kahn - Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, Yale Law School
Paul Kahn's research interests include human rights, popular sovereignty, and constitutional theory. He teaches constitutional law, international law, and legal and political theory.  

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Stathis N. Kalyvas - Director, Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence; Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science
Stathis Kalyvas' research includes the dynamics of polarization and civil war, ethnic and non-ethnic violence, and the formation of social cleavages and identities. He has also researched party politics and political institutions in Europe. He teaches a course in comparative politics.

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Dean Karlan - Professor, Economics
Dean Karlan's research is in development economics, behavioral economics, field experiments, political economy. He teaches development economics, finance, experimental methodologies.

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Stephen R. Kellert - Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Stephen Kellert's research has focused on science, policy, and management relating to the interaction of people and the natural environment. He is currently teaching a course on environmental aesthetics and ethics and conflicts at sea.

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Paul M. Kennedy - Director, International International Security Studies; J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History
Paul Kennedy's research focuses on European history and the Cold War. His graduate courses include readings and research seminars in relations of the Great Powers since 1890 and studies in grand strategy.  

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Daniel Kevles - Stanley Woodward Professor of History and Yale Law School
Daniel Kevles researches the intersection of the history of science and American history since the mid-nineteenth century. His courses include science and technology in American society, nuclear America, biology and society, and the engineering and ownership of life.

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Kaveh Khoshnood - Assistant Professor,  Epidemiology & Public Health
Dr. Khoshnood is an infectious disease epidemiologist and his primary research interests are the epidemiology, prevention and control of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis among drug users, prisoners and other at risk populations in United States and in resource-poor countries. Dr. Khoshnood's other interests are the examination of the links between health and human rights, the role of health in international relations and the ethical dilemmas in research involving vulnerable populations. Dr. Khoshnood conducts research and mentors researchers from China, India, Russia, South Africa and Iran and teaches courses on HIV/AIDS, infectious disease and research ethics.  Teaching:  Global Health Research:  Methodological and Ethical Considerations.

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Benedict F. Kiernan - A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History; Director, Genocide Studies Program, MacMillan Center
Benedict Kiernan's research focuses on twentieth century Cambodia, particularly under the Khmer Rouge, and genocide studies. He teaches courses on Southeast Asian history and the history of genocide.

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Matthew Kocher - Lecturer, Political Science
His research is concerned with the causes and internal dynamics of civil wars and other violent social processes.  Teaching:  International Security and Order & Disorder in Politics.

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Jonathan Koppell - Assoc Prof Politics, Policy & Org Sch of Management; Asst Prof Political Science; Associate Director of the Yale Center for Corporate Governance & Performance and the Director of Yale's Working Group on Global Governance
Jonathan Koppell's research concerns the design and administration of complex organizations. He has focused on hybrid organizations, government-created entities that operate in the marketplace to achieve public policy goals. He teaches core classes on organizational politics and the strategic environment of management.

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Jean Krasno - Lecturer, Political Science ; Associate Research Scholar, Political Science
Jean Krasno's research interests include Brazilian politics, the United Nations, and development. Her teaching includes courses on the UN and international organizations.

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Ellen Lust - Assisant Professor, Political Science
Ellen Lust's research concerns the dynamics of political opposition, the formation of political institutions, and the links between foreign policy and domestic crisis, focusing on the Middle East.  She teaches courses that focus on transitions to democracy, and the Islamic threat.

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Michael Mahoney - Associate Professor, History
Michael Mahoney's research centers around South Africa. His undergraduate courses have included History of Southern Africa, History of Modern Africa, and International Development in Historical Perspective. His graduate courses have included the Culture of colonialism in African History and Women and Gender in African History.

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Nickolay Marinov - Assistant Professor, Political Science
Nickolay Marinov's current research looks at the effectiveness of economic sanctions, at the role of the international community in the spread of democracy around the world, and at the effects of international institutions. His courses include Economic Sanctions and International Democratization.

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Michael McGovern – Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Michael McGovern researched and wrote papers on the social reintegration of ex-combatant youths, American counterterrorism programs in the Sahel region, and the links between political economy and political rhetoric in Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire. He teaches courses including Power, Violence, Cosmology; Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Rebels, Bandits and Freedom Fighters: Anthropologies of Insurgency; The State in Africa; and Politics/Aesthetics.

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Robert Mendelsohn - Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy; Professor, Economics; Professor, Yale School of Management
Robert Mendelsohn has concentrated his research on valuing the environment, including measuring damages from air pollution and greenhouse gases and the values of ecotourism, recreation, and non-timber forest products. He teaches a course on the environment and natural resources.

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Fiona Scott Morton - Professor, Economics, Yale School of Management
Fiona Scott Morton's research focuses on empirical studies of competition among firms in areas such as pricing, entry, and product differentiation. She teaches courses in e-commerce strategy and competitive strategy.

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William Nordhaus - Sterling Professor, Economics; Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
William Nordhaus' interests focus on economic theory, political business cycles, and the costs and benefits of regulation. His recent research has addressed the economic consequences of the war in Iraq. He teaches courses in resource economics, environmental economics and macroeconomics.

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Sharon Oster - Director, Program on Social Enterprise; Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, Yale School of Management
Sharon Oster is a specialist in competitive strategy, microeconomic theory, industrial organization, the economics of regulation and antitrust, and nonprofit strategy. She has written extensively on the regulation of business and competitive strategy. She teaches courses in competitive strategy and a non-profit case writing workshop.  

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Patricia R. Pessar - Associate Professor, American Studies and Anthropology
Patricia Pessar's research focuses on transnationalism and globalization, gender and ethnic studies, and migration in the Americas. She teaches courses in the history of resistance and rebellion in Latin America and the ER&M Junior Seminar.

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Thomas Pogge - Professor,  Political Science & Philosophy
Research centers on poverty, global health and justice in healthcare.  He is the author of numerous books on these subjects.  Co-teaching:  Global Health Ethics, Politics and Economics.

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Douglas Rae - Professor of Management & Professor of Political Science
Work on capitalist institutions, American cities, and of the interface between the economy and government. Teaching Capitalism:  Success, Crisis, and Reform.

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Mridu Rai - Assistant Professor, History
Mridu Rai's scholarship on south Asia history focuses on Muslim identity in Kashmir and on caste and politics in colonial Bihar. Graduate and undergraduate courses focus on issues of colonial control and anti-colonial resistance, religion and power in south Asia, and south Asian historiography.

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Gustav Ranis - Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics; Sr. Research Scientist, MacMillan Center
Gustav Ranis's research is in adjustment and liberalization sequences; balanced growth; the political economy of LDC policy change; decentralization and development, growth and human development. His teaching centers around development economics; interdependence between rich and poor countries; political economy.

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W. Michael Reisman - Myres S. McDougal Professor, International Law, Yale Law School
Michael Reisman's research interests encompass multiple aspects of public and private international law. He teaches courses in public international law and international commerce.   

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Susan Rose-Ackerman - Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence; Professor, Political Science
Susan Rose-Ackerman's research focuses on corruption, trust, and politics in social and economic development. She teaches classes on administrative law, law and economics, and corruption.  

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Frances Rosenbluth - Director, Leitner Program in Political Economy; Damon Wells Professor International Politics, Political Science
Frances Rosenbluth's research concerns Japanese politics and political economy, the politics of banking regulation, and the political economy of gender. She has written a number of books on Japanese politics and is currently teaching courses on comparative political economy, political economy of gender and war and state building.

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K. Geert Rouwenhorst - Deputy Director of the International Center for Finance; Professor, Finance, Yale School of Management
K. Geert Rouwenhorst specializes in international finance, asset pricing, and business cycles. His research examines the tradeoff between risk and return in international developed and emerging stock markets, strategies for portfolio selection, and the behavior of financial markets over the business cycle. He teaches a course in international finance.

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Jennifer Ruger - Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health; Assistant Professor (Adj), Law School
Jennifer Ruger's research interests focus on the political economy of health and include economic evaluation of addiction programs and emergency and humanitarian services; health, health finance and development; and health and social justice. She teaches courses in social, economic, and political dimensions of development.

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Bruce Russett - Dean Acheson Professor, International Relations; Director, United Nations Studies at Yale; Editor, Journal of Conflict Resolution
Bruce Russett's research focuses on theories of war and peace, international and national International Security Studies, democracy, and international organizations. He teaches classes on the theory of war, war and public health, and international relations theory.  

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Nancy L. Ruther - Associate Director, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale; Lecturer, Political Science
Nancy Ruther's research interest has focused on how federal policy affects internationalization of the higher education system in the US. She was an advisor to a study of the impact of federal HEA Title VI undergraduate international studies projects. Since 1995, she taught the required introductory course for the Master's students in International Relations at Yale.

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Nicholas Sambanis - Associate Director, United Nations Studies at Yale; Associate Professor, Political Science
Nicholas Sambanis's research concerns questions on violent civil conflict, the interaction of economic development, political institutions, and civil war, globalization and self-determination, and the uses of the United Nations to prevent or resolve civil violence. He teaches classes on UN peace-building, secession, and civil war.  

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Jonathan Schell - Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School
Jonathan Schell is professionally and personally interested in writing and speaking on the nuclear issue and he is frequently consulted by both members of Congress and the media. In 2003, he taught a course on the nuclear dilemma at the Yale Law School, and was also a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Globalization.

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Alicia Schmidt Camacho - Assistant Professor, American Studies
Alicia Schmidt Camacho's current scholarship centers on migration and violence at the U.S.-Mexican border in order to better understand the process of globalization. Her teaching interests focus on ethnicity, race, and migration.

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Ian Shapiro - Sterling Professor, Political Science, Henry R Luce Director, MacMillan Center for International and Areas Studies at Yale
Ian Shapiro's research interests include the methods of social inquiry; theories of justice, democracy, and distribution; and the prospects for sustainable democracy in countries that are emerging from authoritarianism. He teaches courses in Democracy in World Politics and Intro to Study of Politics.

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Vivek Sharma - Assistant Professor, Political Science
Vivek Sharma is broadly interested in the relationship between social institutions and political order including alliances, warfare and violence. He teaches courses in War & Peace in Theory and History and PoliticalAuth/StateForm/Europe.

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James Silk - Executive Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights; Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic
James Silk's interests focus on international human rights. He directs the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. He teaches courses in human rights.

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Helen F. Siu - Professor, Anthropology
Helen Siu's research and teaching interests include East Asia, culture and political economy, historical anthropology, political anthropology, social change in complex agrarian societies, urban anthropology, modern social theory and cultural critique. She teaches courses in Chinese culture, urban anthropology, and Chinese anthropology.  

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Gaddis Smith - Larned Professor Emeritus, History; Lecturer, History & Lecturer Koerner Center For Emeriti - History
Gaddis Smith is an expert in American foreign relations and maritime history who has published six books: American Diplomacy in the Second World War, Morality, Reason and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years, The Aims of American Foreign Policy, Dean Acheson, Britain's Clandestine Submarines, 1914-1915, and The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine: 1945-1993. He teaches a senior seminar in International Studies titled Oceans, Security, and Globalization in History.

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Philip Smith - Associate Professor, Sociology; Director, Center for Cultural Sociology
Philip Smith researches in the areas of social and cultural theory, cultural sociology and criminology. He teaches courses in Sociology of Social Control and Criminal Justice, Cultural Sociology and Crime and Deviance.

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Jonathan Spence - Sterling Professor, History
Jonathan Spence teaches in the field of Chinese history from 1600 to the present, and on Western images of China since the middle ages. He teaches courses on Chinese history and China's relationship with the rest of the world.

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Susan Stokes - John S. Saden Professor, Political Science - Political Science
Susan Stokes's research interests include democratic theory and how democracy functions in developing societies, with a focus on Latin America. She teaches courses on Latin American politics and development, political parties and democracy, and clientelism, patronage, and vote buying.

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Alec Stone Sweet - Leitner Professor, International Law, Politics & International Studies
Alec Stone Sweet focuses on the relationship between globalization (primarily economic activity across national borders) and national, international, supernational, and transnational legal systems. He teaches Law & Politics of Globalization.

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Ivan Szelenyi - William Graham Sumner Professor, Sociology
Ivan Szelenyi works on social inequalities from a comparative and historical perspective. Recently he conducted large scale surveys on changing the stratification system in European post-communist countries and currently he is working on poverty and ethnicity in transitional societies. He teaches courses on social theory.

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Christopher Udry - Director, Economic Growth Center; Henry J. Heinz II Professor, Economics
Christopher Udry's research focuses on agricultural technology, innovation, social networks, and rural households in western Africa. He teaches courses in the microeconomics of development in Africa.

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Laura Wexler – Professor of American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies; Chair, Women's and Gender Studies
Laura Wexler is currently working on little-known photographs from the F.S.A./ O.W.I. archives, on Kate Chopin, and on photographic adumbrations of the Holocaust. Her courses include the Junior Seminar in American Studies, the Introduction to Women's Studies and Feminist Theory, a graduate seminar in Feminist Theory, and her graduate seminar on aspects of Visual Culture.

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Steven Wilkinson – Professor, Political Science
His main interests are in: 1) ethnicity and nationalism; 2) patronage politics and the politics of distribution; 3) the long term effects of colonization on governance and conflict.  In the theoretical study of all these areas, he draws upon his continuing research interests in the society and politics of South Asia.

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Jay Winter - Charles J. Stille Professor, History
Jay Winter's research focuses on World War I and European cultural history, specializing in the impact of World War I on the twentieth century. His courses include seminars on modern British and comparative modern European history.

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Elisabeth Wood – Professor, Political Science
Elisabeth Wood’s current research focuses on sexual violence during war, negotiated settlements to civil war, and redistribution and democratization in developing countries. She is also a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and serves on the editorial boards of Politics and Society and the Contentious Politics series of Cambridge University Press.

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Jonathan Wyrtzen – Assistant Professor, Sociology and International Affairs
Jonathanis a comparative-historical sociologist with teaching and research interests in North African society and politics. He works on the areas of state formation; colonialism and empire; ethnicity and nationalism; urban and rural contentious politics; and Islamic social movements. Teaching: Comparative Nationalism in North Africa and the Middle East and Islamic Social Movements; Imperialism, Insurgency, and State-Building

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